Today's milling

[Rough Hewn]

This very happy client drove up from the midlands to collect some tiger striped oak boards and some 4" legs.

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[Rough Hewn]

Last job of the day,
Delivering a few slabs of the spalted Ash.


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[se7enthdevil]

the ash is not spalted mate, it just has alot of olive figure and colouring in the wood.

[Rough Hewn]

the ash is not spalted mate, it just has alot of olive figure and colouring in the wood.

It's a fungal infection that changes the colour of the timber.
That's spalting isn't it?
And yeah, I would call it olive ash but most people don't know what that is.
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[openspaceman]

1 hour ago, Rough Hewn said:

It's a fungal infection that changes the colour of the timber.
That's spalting isn't it?
And yeah, I would call it olive ash but most people don't know what that is.

I thought spalting was the black lines (psuedoschlerotic plates) formed between colonies of fungi attacking the wood

[Wedgebanger]

And I said.this before... but what do I know ???????

 

.https://academic.oup.com/forestry/article-pdf/71/1/49/6745997/71-1-49.pdf

 

[kernowstu]

12 hours ago, Rough Hewn said:

Milled another spalted Ash log today.

Loving these logs.

Lovely bit of timber,down this way we call it Olive ash.

[Rough Hewn]

It's a non fungal infection.
Thanks wedgebanger
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[Gary Prentice]

On 20/06/2019 at 16:41, Stihl123 said:

why does your milled wood always look 100% better than the timber i get to mill ?

 

He just takes better photos, that's all. 

[Gary Prentice]

8 hours ago, openspaceman said:

I thought spalting was the black lines (psuedoschlerotic plates) formed between colonies of fungi attacking the wood

Right as usual!

 

10 hours ago, Rough Hewn said:

It's a fungal infection that changes the colour of the timber.

Saul, OSM is correct. The colouration that you see in your 'olive' ash is due to various chemicals that the tree 'infuses' into the dead 'heartwood'  as a form of protection. There's various methods that different tree species use to protect itself from pathogens, initially compartmentalising itself with physical and chemical barriers, and this is one of them.  Whereas as 'spalting' is entirely created by the fungi themselves.  

 

Sorry for the poor explanation, not had much sleep. And if I'm teaching my grandmother...